On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:17 PM, James A.R. Koehler
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>         Yes, I tried that and got exactly the same result.  Last night, I
> installed the Windows version of Lyx on a WIndows XP virtual machine and it
> all installed and ran correctly.  However, I do not want to use it that way;
> I want to run the Linux version.  I need to edit some material I wrote a few
> years ago so this is very frustrating.
>
>     The .lyx/layouts directory is completely empty and, indeed, so are all
> the other sub-directories under .lyx
>
Then you can simply try to mv ~/.lyx ~/.lyx.bak and then restart LyX.

Liviu


>     Jim
>
>
>
> On 14-03-26 11:36 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:00 PM, James A.R. Koehler
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have installed Lyx (several times!) on two Mint16 machines; one a
>>> 32-bit
>>> version and the other 64-bit.  Mint is based on Ubuntu 13. In both cases,
>>> when installing either from a download from the Lyx site or via the .deb
>>> repository, it installs without any classes or layouts; i.e., it is not
>>> very
>>>
>> Have you tried installing from the PPA?
>>
>> https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/release
>>
>>
>> Liviu
>>
>>> useful.  If I try to read the User Manual, it comes up with an error
>>> saying
>>> it cannot find the appropriate class to display the data.  Catch 22.
>>>
>>> In previous installations on earlier distributions of Linux in other
>>> years,
>>> the installation was seamless and problem free.  Help!
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>
>>
>



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